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Child, 10, Gets Tattoo, Gets Put in Foster Care

June 25, 2012, 6:39 pm
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Ah, remember the halcyon days of fourth grade — riding bikes, chasing down the ice cream man, getting your first tattoo… wait, what? Yes, a ten-year-old kid got a tattoo, and not surprisingly, social services has removed the little boy from his home after the tat and some other unspecified allegations came to their attention. [...]

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Research In Motion Shares Hit Hard After Morgan Stanley Downgrade

June 25, 2012, 7:08 pm
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Believing In Hell Equals Lower Crime Rate [Study]

June 25, 2012, 7:28 pm
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Apparently if you believe in hell, you’re less likely to commit a crime, according to a study published by two U.S. professors, who say that countries with a belief in hell have lower crime rates than those who have a greater belief in heaven. Newser reports that the researchers searched for mentions of heaven, hell, [...]

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Swine Flu Deaths Could Been 15 Times Higher Than Initially Reported

June 25, 2012, 7:29 pm
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The 2009 swine flu outbreak may have killed 15 times more people worldwide than originally estimated, researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found. The survey was the first to estimate the death toll, which the World Health Organization originally pegged at 18,500 people, Bloomberg reported. New research shows the death toll from [...]

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Microsoft Acquires Yammer For $1.2 Billion

June 25, 2012, 7:32 pm
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Two weeks ago we reported that Microsoft was in talks to purchase social business platform Yammer and on Monday Microsoft made that rumor official. Yammer currently offers business social networking services to some of the countries largest business’ and the platform supports more than 5 million corporate users. The acquisition is one of Microsoft’s largest [...]

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Far Cry 3 Release Date Pushed Back

June 25, 2012, 7:58 pm
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Far Cry 3 was originally announced for release on PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 around early September, but Ubisoft announced today that the release date for the title has been pushed back a month or two, depending on where you’re located. The release date for Far Cry 3 is now expected on November 29 [...]

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Google Nexus 7 Details Leaked, $199 Tablet Looks Promising

June 25, 2012, 7:58 pm
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The Google Nexus 7 will be Google’s first attempt at breaching the tablet market with its own offering and now details about the 7-inch, $199 Android Tablet have been leaded. Gizmodo Australia warns potential buyers that the details discovered could be an “elaborate fake” since they were taken from a leaked training document and not tradition [...]

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Anti-Gay Assault Leaves Brooklyn Teen Blinded, Parents Suing NYC For $16 Million

June 25, 2012, 8:00 pm
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USPS Workers Go On Strike To Protest Congress’ Failure To Fix Their Problems

June 25, 2012, 8:42 pm
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Science Explains Why ‘Call Me Maybe’ is Stuck in Your Head

June 25, 2012, 9:34 pm
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If “Call Me Maybe” has been stuck in your head for the past few days — and trust me, you’re not alone — science can explain the phenomenon from which you are suffering, referred to colloquially on the internet as an “earworm.” Earworms, or songs that are incredibly sticky on the inside of your head, seem to [...]

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Steve Nash Is “Open To Anything” As Free Agency Looms

June 25, 2012, 9:34 pm
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Mass Effect 3 ‘Extended Cut’ Update Won’t Please Everyone

June 25, 2012, 9:48 pm
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As we recently reminded you, the Mass Effect 3 ‘Extended Cut’ DLC is expected to release tomorrow on all platforms. The nearly 2 gigabyte update, which is free, mind you, adds in new cinematics and “epilogue” scenes that BioWare hopes will add further clarity and closure to fans who were disappointed by the ending. It [...]

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How British People Feel When Americans Complain About Hot Summer Days

June 25, 2012, 10:03 pm
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Apple Pulls Ads Claiming Immunity To Viruses

June 25, 2012, 10:17 pm
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With Apple’s OS X coming under attack by various viruses over the last several months the company has quietly begun pulling wording in its advertisements that claim an immunity to viruses in its popular operating system. First spotted by Computerworld Australia Apple changed the wording in one of its ads from “doesn’t get PC viruses” to “It’s [...]

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Arizona Wins College World Series In 4-1 Victory Over South Carolina

June 25, 2012, 10:34 pm
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Google Maps API Receives A Price Drop

June 25, 2012, 10:52 pm
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Third-party app developers who utilize or plan to utilize the Google Maps API were treated to lower plan pricing on Monday. Google recently announced that large-scale map providers would be forced to pay $4 per 1,000 map loads and now the company has drastically reduced that pricing to $.50 per 1,000 map utilizations. The pricing [...]

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Fiona Apple Reveals Her Struggle with OCD

June 25, 2012, 11:08 pm
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It’s been a good week for singer/songwriter Fiona Apple. This week mark’s the debut of her latest album, which took her a good seven years to produce.  The album, which is verbosely titled, “The Idler Wheel Is Wiser than the Driver of the Screw, and Whipping Cords will Serve You More than Ropes Will Ever [...]

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Two Lulzsec Hackers Plead Guilty To High-Profile Website Attacks

June 25, 2012, 11:25 pm
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Ryan Clearly of Wickford, England and Jake Davis of Lerwick, England plead guilty on Monday for their part in hacking various websites as part of the Lulzsec hacktivist group. Among their local and international corporate and government victims were the Central Intelligence Agency, Sony, Fox Entertainment Group, the Arizona State Police and Britain’s Serious Organized Crime [...]

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Chat is Confusing

June 26, 2012, 12:08 pm
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Human-Powered Helicopter Sets Flight Record [Video]

June 26, 2012, 12:08 pm
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A group of students at the University of Maryland have just set a flight record with their human-powered helicopter. The Gamera II managed to stay airborne for 50 seconds, beating the previous record, set by the Gamera I, of 11.4 seconds. ANI reports that the human-powered helicopter is 105 feet across but only weighs 71 [...]

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